From: Jeremiah Senkpiel Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2015 03:27:17 +0000 (-0700) Subject: doc: clarify prerequisites in benchmark/README.md X-Git-Tag: v2.3.2~32 X-Git-Url: http://review.tizen.org/git/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=dbd5dc932d56389aa494fda6f87b2e8f52bd97b4;p=platform%2Fupstream%2Fnodejs.git doc: clarify prerequisites in benchmark/README.md PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/io.js/pull/2034 Reviewed-By: Evan Lucas Reviewed-By: Trevor Norris --- diff --git a/benchmark/README.md b/benchmark/README.md index 7ed96403b..e14919d62 100644 --- a/benchmark/README.md +++ b/benchmark/README.md @@ -5,8 +5,12 @@ io.js APIs. ## Prerequisites -Most of the http benchmarks require [`wrk`][wrk] and [`ab`][ab] being installed. -These are most often available through your preferred package manager. +Most of the http benchmarks require [`wrk`][wrk] and [`ab`][ab] (ApacheBench) being installed. +These may be available through your preferred package manager. + +If they are not available: +- `wrk` may easily built [from source](https://github.com/wg/wrk) via `make`. +- `ab` is sometimes bundled in a package called `apache2-utils`. [wrk]: https://github.com/wg/wrk [ab]: http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/programs/ab.html